Phoonk (2008)

Director:

Ram Gopal Varma

Writer:

Milind Gadagkar (writer)

Release Date:

22 August 2008 (India)

Genre:

Horror

Plot Keywords:

Black Magic | Child In Peril | Levitation | One Word Title | Possession

Cast

Anu Ansari	...	Laxmi
Shrey Bawa	...	Rohan
Ahsaas Channa	...	Raksha
Kenny Desai	...	Anshuman
Lillete Dubey	...	Dr. seema walke
Zakir Hussain	...	Manja
Kishore Kadam	...	Devappa
Bharat Kaul	...	Mandar
Ashwini Khalsekar	...	Madhu
Amruta Khanvilkar	...	Arati
K.K. Raina	...	Dr. pandey
Javed Rizvi	...	Mani
Shankar Sachdev	...	Shyam
Jyoti Subhash	...	Amma
Sudeep	...	Rajiv
Ganesh Yadav	...	Vinay

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

India:A

Company:

One More Thought Entertainment

Rgv ..Please take a break and give us one as well.....

In an interview given to one of the reporters, Mr. Verma, the director of the movie "Phoonk" had warned that the film would scare the hell out of the audiences and said that it would give one sleepless nights.Now, let me put this straight, after I had watched phoonk, I can come to the absolute conclusion that Mr. Ram gopal verma is losing his way out there completely. The situation is not far when people will start ridiculing him at every launch or premiere of a movie of the horror genre.I mean, what is he doing?.Does he ever come to know what the audiences think about his horror films produced or directed by him and what the audiences actually want?.People go inside the hall and literally make fun of the characters and the movie.What chill and what thrill is he talking about? His thoughts and assumptions are going in the wrong direction.he expects us to be afraid..well we are not but instead embarrassed.

Talking about phoonk, the movie was a poor one.The storyline had nothing special and exciting.The usage of background music was pathetic according to the film sequences. The film had the typical Ram Gopal Verma elements of the typical ghostly faces and sounds and also the boring creepy atmosphere that was created. The movie had the same lame and boring atmospheric elements as that of Vaastu Shastra, Bhoot, Darna Zaroori Hai and Raat. Audiences can just whistle and tease and take the interest away during the movie.The cinematography with the camera-work was awful and disgusting.RGv wants to scare us but he needs to find new ways.Gone are the days of Raat and other ghost films like Dayyam in which he had some success.He really needs to look up to some Hollywood or Japanese movies and get some inspiration from them if he can't deliver it on his own and there is nothing wrong in it.Every good director gets inspired by Hollywood films and does copy the style because in the end what matters is the audience entertainment. If not watch Hollywood movies then read some good books or Ghost stories by some very famous authors and make a movie on that but not this. The performances given by the actors couldn't really help the story and the direction and instead made things worse. There comes a time when one begins to feel embarrassed after spending even only 30 bucks for the show after the taunts in the hall.The child artists cannot be blamed as direction was poor. The story didn't have much to really set a chilling effect.Faces made along with sounds were just boring.Mr Verma ..wake up...Do make Horror movies.. We need them but change the style. The horror genre of films are soon starting to disappear from the Indian Film Industry.We need quality stuff and if movies like phoonk and vaastu are made time and time again then we can all really stop going to movie theaters.